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• White pollution" mainly refers to the two negative effects on the environment: "visual pollution" and "potential hazards“.
"Visual pollution "
"potential hazards"
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Affects of white pollution
◇It’s tough for soil to absorb them .As a result , the plants can’t absorb water and nutrients from the soil normally .Worse still ,the plants will drop in production and even the farmers will have a poor harvest.
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◇If we burn the plastic waste .It will produce harmful gas and result in air pollution ,which will also do harm to human’s health.
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Solutions
△ For the individuals, we can minimize the use of one-time items, drive low-emission cars and use the phosphate-free laundry detergent power when doing some washing.
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◇It will have a bad impact on underground water and thus influence people’s health. Because in the process the plastic products can produce
carcinogen.
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Visual pollution
"Visual pollution" refers to the damage done to the city's appearance and landscape due to the plastic rubbish scattered in the environment . This pollution can create a slight feeling of negativity.
△ For the factories, exhaust gas, waste water and waste residue should be well disposed of before they are discharged. The factories can use some advanced manufacturing technologies to reduce the noise and improve their capacities of recycling.
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Potential hazards
"Potential hazards" refer to long-term and deepseated environmental problems, which occur when plastic rubbish is thrown away randomly in the natural environment, thus creating great difficulty in solving this kind of pollution problem.
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What is white pollution?
White pollution refers to the environmental pollution which is caused by some plastic products such as shopping plastic bags and lunch boxes .It’s very hard for the plastic products to be absorbed by the soil .Besides, they are disposable.
White Pollution
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※ Introduction of white pollution. ※ Affects of white pollution.
※ Solutions.
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Background
• White pollutants—
primarily consists of foam boxes, plastic bags, plastic cups and other plastic materials—those did not draw enough popular attention until 1995. Presently, the presence of white pollution along railways, rivers and on any corner of city streets have made people realize the severity of the pro the medium, they can report the positive and negative examples about the pollution as much as possible. Also, TV and radio can broadcast some public service advertisements to improve the citizens' awareness of environmental protection.